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I have video'd hundreds of tandem and AFF jumps. About 600. Every week somebody comes up with some new way to keep a tandem master on their back to terminal or an evasive maneuver that almost gets the slip of an Aff instructor. Having seen so much of this it has caused me to back off on my normally "do it as soon as I'm qualified" attitude. When I get a tandem rating, it will stay current. For AFF, I truly do think over a thousand jumps should usually be the criterion. If a jumper can't always get their dock when everybody on the skydive is cooperating it seems like a bad idea to me to move on to taking on the responsibility of attempting to pull someone else out who is trying to give you the slip just because they are spastic. For people who are considering it, go and lurk some AFF to see just how much work it can be. I'm going to spend the summer accomplishing some goals, and I may go to AFF school in the fall or right before the Christmas Boogie in Eloy.
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Can anyone Suggest Some good DVD's to Buy?
Deuce replied to jedisk8r's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
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I've been doing the camera thing for a couple years, and I'm just more and more excited by it. I love it. I have the coach rating and get to jump with newbies and teach them the skills they need to progress. I teach the first jump course and take great pride when I turn them over to the AFF instructors for their first jump and they have all the answers. I'll have my tandem rating sometime this month, it's an opportunity that's open to me, but I'll always choose camera over tandem. But jumping Tandem is better than waiting an hour for a fun slot. I'll get my AFF next fall. By then I'll have well over 1000 jumps and I personally thing 1000 is the minimum a jumper should have to do the main side where anything can happen. I wouldn't push that on anybody else, but that's my standard. Having a "job" at the DZ really ups your jump numbers. When the customers are gone, you jump with your buds.
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That's a nice change, MonoUno. Usually this quote is made to a cop who is shining a flashlight on a SkyMonkey during the comission of a felony. That is a nice suit, but I think the extra zippers would be a great idea. Getting in and out of that one, in August, is going to be a sweaty ordeal.
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Very nice! Dang, girlie, your hair is getting long! JP
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From what I know, these are the best video helmets in the world. Each one is custom. Amazing, beautifully engineered stuff. http://home.earthlink.net/~rimworld/ I'll get one one day.
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We use an analog board editor at Byron, and the editor makes $5 per edit, I think.
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Neat and informative. THanks
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I agree about the polarizing filter. This is the first time I thought I'd want one, and only to reduce the reflectivity of the face shields. As this is a 100mm telephoto lens, I'm actually a ways out from the formation. The attached one is shot from INSIDE using the Sigma 14 aspherical. I think it's the difference in the field of view that makes the pictures so different. On the wideangle the picture is trying to get the most information possible to the viewer, and with the zoom the picture is trying to focus the viewer on the subject. I like them both, and yeah, I think I need a couple of circular polarizing filters. JP
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It goes an hour, and I've sent copies to the Netherlands, UK, Sweden and OZ with no complaints. I think it has to do with how new a DVD player is. You can play it in your DVD player in your computer by downloading the regional codec-thingie. Just a shameless plug. We're doing another one for the Memorial Boogie in Perris this May.
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What did you learn late in life that made you feel like a fool?
Deuce replied to kelel01's topic in The Bonfire
I learned very late that people you care about and have a great deal of respect for will look you and your family right in the eyes as they plan to destroy you. I learned late that hatred was an elemental force that can be attached to you by a quirk of fate. I learned late that my capacity to be a very bad man is more than compensated by my natural inclination to be good. I'm comfortable having the capacity for evil, unused. I'm also comfortable using it, when forced. It's weird. And hard to explain. And learned late in life. -
Click my sig line and meet all these postwhores. The 2003 Holiday Boogie DVD raises cash for Sangiro and lets you know what you're getting in to when you come to a DZ.boogie. Like the one Memorial Day at Perris!
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Glad I still have it on the card. 1/750 at f 4.0 Question: Does the Canon software keep those values when you download the pics? -I haven't downloaded or used it.
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Yep. Inside, probably close to the base. Rumor so far is the CASA for me. Before I seek out the opportunity to be over one, it only makes sense to sieze the opportunity to be in one. I've seen your pictures from last year. Very coolio, the two points next to each other.
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I did a cool one Saturday off the strut in my S3. I sit on the front edge of the door sill and bring both lets out together and put both feet together on the step, then put my chest and penguin arms on the strut. It really is the nicest exit out there, I think. Very, very smooth.
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That is neat. Funny how we get used to the wideangle's field of view. You're filming the 140 way sequential next month, right? I'll see you then! JP
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Absolutely, that stunt couldn't have been pulled off in a lesser rig!
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It's a beautiful day in the sky, and then I see this...
Deuce replied to Deuce's topic in The Bonfire
See, the question is, how to crank up the difficulty of any skydive with Gareth... I know! Try to take pictures while desperately trying to recall the next point! That was my 14 on there, not the zoom. -
Your suit or some boom-boom time? You guys in Florida next month, at all?
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Yep. Autofocus. There's some busts because I only use the center focusing point so the ringsite must be dead-on.
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Canon 100 F2, autofocus, shutter priority 1/500. check out the other pics in the Telephoto thread in the camera forum. McGowan put this bug in my head last year about getting faces and shooting aperature priority to shallow up the depth of field. They're neat, kind of different.
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Actually that Canon 100 is much lighter than my 14, and about the same as my 20. I am really digging being able to see people's eyes.
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Yeah, actually I'm giving Iwan a hard time cause he barrel rolled out of the Cessna on exit and it only looks like he's vertical for that 500th of a second! There's another nice shot of him flying dirty in the photography forum. I'm experimenting with longer lenses and having some fun with them. JP
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Is pretty cool. I just got a 100mm 2.0 Canon for my 10D to use on swoopers and for canopy shots. I used it on formations yesterday and got some Cool Stuff. I had taken my 28-200 up a couple times for longer lens situations, but it's way to long physically, and the mechanism to zoom it doesn't seem too robust. Here's a couple shots from yesterday. The facial expressions are fun. Something we don't see too much of in RW.
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VRW is vertical relative work. It's like regular freeflying but with less fun.